Figure Collection Update #5

We Are Killing It This Week

It’s been a fairly strong week with tons of anime figure progress, which was pleasantly much more than I had initially anticipated.

One of the exciting news that I’d like to share with you is that I finally managed to fully setup and configure my MyFigureCollection.net account despite holding off on making one since forever! You can find me by clicking here to check out my profile. I’m now virtually on it a daily basis. Drop by and leave me a message or send me a FR and let’s be friends!

As I’m approaching my 100 figure milestone, there has been quite a few things that have been a topic of discussion on my website recently. From what to do with excess anime figure boxes to my current figure focus criterias, and my fixation on dolls as a new hobby frontier – I feel like there is still so much to the hobby that I can talk about and I can now say I’m starting to really overcome the writer’s block that has plagued me since the dawn of time.

I have even taken some strides in tidying up my figure expenditure list to better communicate accurately the costs and inventory management which also includes at any given time, the exact tally of how many figures of a particular scale at a glance.

This week I have went ahead to further my figure collecting hobby by moving to swiftly adding three more new figures to the family.

Once again I focused my sights on another lovely eye catching Super Sonico figure, this time 1/6 scale Skytube Gravure Swimsuit (white ver) by Alphamax.

There is a black swim suit version that makes it look much more mature looking but I feel the dark color scheme to be out of place considering how Sonico is usually seen with light cheery/pastel colored apparel which I also felt would match her bubbly personality.

Points aside from this being a gorgeous figure, it is also sculpted by 2% whom has done about 53 other quality works in the past. Among them a few favorites that I’d mention is Himekawa Himeru from Masou Gakuen HxH, Nakiri Erina from Shokugeki no Souma, and a few figures from the To-Luv Ru and Muv-Luv series.

Since the dawn of my figure collecting days, one particular series that seems to have evaded my collection efforts had been the very popular and well known To Heart 2 collection. Now before you grab your pitch forks and torches, in my defense – I had honestly never really paid much attention to the series to warrant a serious look until this purchase decision came up.

Yes quite literally almost a 100 figures later, Kousaka Tamaki is my very first To Heart 2 figure! I’m quite proud to make this one my first one in a bunch I’m sure to start collecting. Her design is based off a popular japanese visual novel in 2004 which had spawned over half a thousand figures since inception to date.

There are 3 variations of this particular figure in circulation, all if not most are on the 2nd hand market place. This particular one is the Temptation ver. with a light pink swim suit outfit. There is a black swim suit variant as well as a Panic variant with her in a different pose.

Given her scale and the detail to the figure plus the price point I was able to get her at didn’t make it a hard decision to make the purchase. Looking forward to see this figure in person!

Now, quite remarkably – this figure had eluded my 1/4 figure purchases for quite a while. The reason was because my search criteria’s were the B-Style line from FREEing whereas this figure was manufactured by Gift (a company I’m not overly familiar with).

I first took notice of her existence while a late night dive into Japan’s Yahoo auction where she was being sold off to a lucky (albeit) rich purchaser for well over 40,000 JPY (sealed).

I initially passed the listing, partially because I don’t follow the series but it was curiosity that got the better of my attention and so I scrolled back to view the listing in greater detail.

With some quick research and the help of Google Images, I now see why anyone would pay over a quarter of a thousand dollars (almost half in this instance) for this blonde beauty.

Coming in at over 14in, this eye catching figure comes with probably one of the most detailed eye appealing sculpted body of a girl most people has ever seen, with remarkable detail in the legs, waist area, torso, arms and head department. I would argue that some of her most revealing body features might be leaning towards to the exaggerated side of the scale but I’m by all means a simple guy, With a body like that, I’m in no position to demand any less.

Kashiwazaki Sena comes all out in her signature color scheme with bright pastel colors, her iconic butterfly hair clip in a very suggestive yet playful pose. I’d be surprised if any hard core figure collector would pass on adding this figure to their collection. Her very well sculpted figure almost demands it and is non-negotiable.

Lucky for me, I was able to get her for just under 30,000 JPY shipped. At the time of this writing she is awaiting shipping. One of my most anticipated figures of this month up along side my previous 1/4 scale purchase of FREEing’s B-style Sonsaku Hakufuku, making Sena the 9th 1/4 scale figure to the family.

Watch out for my follow up post soon where I cover one figure that was not mentioned in this week’s figure round up!